I long for actual human interaction or something. Even a TV would help. When I lived by myself the first year after college, I hated the silence so much that sometimes I'd just have the TV on for the noise it provided, even if I wasn't watching it.
There are some TVs scattered throughout this building, but British TV is only 5 channels basically and I don't think there's really much on that would interest me. In the UK people need to register their TV and pay a tax of some kind. I think there are some students who have a TV in their room, but they have to fill out a form and go through some strange process to make it legit.
Instead of TV, I listened to my favorite Chicago radio stations' (WXRT and WDRV) streaming live broadcasts over the internet. It was fun to hear some familiar voices. I started to listening this afternoon--morning in IL--about the same time I would have been commuting to school if I were there.
This residence hall is so huge; there are so many students living here. There's a wide range of students, though. They're not all studying at the Institute of Education. The University of London has about 20 colleges under it's name, so the people living here could be attending any of them. Plus, they are not all Master's students either. Strange thing is that even though there are so many people here, I hardly ever pass anyone in the hallway. Even if I do pass someone, I don't know if they're 18 or 30 or what. Breakfast and dinner in the cafeteria is when I scope things out discretely.
I could write more, but I think I'll save some thoughts for another time when I'm completely lonely and bored.
Here's a picture of me sitting at my desk writing this blog. :) Yes, I did set up my camera strategically to take this shot on a timer. I TOLD you have a lot of time on my hands right now!
1 comment:
Oh, Mindi. You don't need to have time on your hands to do a timer shot. Those are classic Mindi, anytime, day or night. TIMER SHOT! Did you perch your camera precariously on top of books?? Classic.
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